Ik heb via een hogeschool of universiteit gesolliciteerd. De procedure duurde 2 weken. Ik heb gesolliciteerd bij Amazon in mrt 2014
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Applied through the university career services. Got a call from Amazon for a phone interview in the next week. There were 2 45-minutes back to back coding interviews. The interviewers were helpful and asked questions on the coding logic. One of the interviewer asked about the past projects.
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There were 2 coding questions. First was to extend a class that contained the names and ratings of movies so as to get a list of similar movies and the movie name with the highest rating. Second question was pretty simple, given an array of integers, print first two numbers that sum upto 10.
It had 2 rounds, and each one had some behavioral questions as well as one technical question. The behavioral questions were about different group work situations that I had before, and I had to describe them. The technical questions were LeetCode medium.
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Describe a situation when you had a conflict with your supervisor.
The role I was interviewed for is SDET. It was through our campus placements. There was an initial screening test, followed by 2 more online interview rounds. The screening round consisted of 7 chapters, like OOPS, Database, Linux, Computer Networks, Programming and so on.
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The screening round was an online test for like 3 hours. It went well, and I was selected for that. But in the actual interview, I was initially asked about my projects and 2 DSA Questions. The first DSA question was a maximum subarray-based question, and the second question was a finding the shortest path in a graph-based question
The interview was heavily focused on GenAI and Amazon Leadership Principles. The Technical Manager did a deep dive into my approach to prompting LLMs and how I optimize workflows using them. In contrast, the SDE Engineer’s questions were more direct and strongly centered around Leadership Principles.
